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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says 'Putin was waiting' for Trump to withdraw the United States from NATO in his second term
Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018.
Former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018.Xinhua/Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari via Getty Images
  • Putin was waiting for Trump to withdraw the US from NATO, according to a former national security advisor.

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If Donald Trump won a second term, the Russian President was going to wait for the United States to leave the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, according to former National Security advisor JohnBolton.

During a virtual event with the Washington Post on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the US ambassador to the UN, JohnBolton, offered criticisms of current President Joe Biden's foreign policy in the region. At the end of the event, he was asked by the Post's Michael Duffy about how close Trump came to withdrawing the country from NATO, a translantic security alliance that includes the United States, Canada, and most of Europe.

In a second Trump term, I thought he put his foot over it. I think Putin was waiting for that.

During his presidency, Trump believed that NATO was a liability because European countries were not paying enough to provide defense to the alliance. After being brought on to be Trump's national security advisor in the year and a half that followed, he was ousted a year and a half later.

Just days before, he told Newsmax that Trump "barely knew where Ukraine was", pushing back on a host who said the former president had been tough on Russia.

He criticized his former boss when asked if he was satisfied with how the Trump administration handled Ukraine.

It went badly, I think, because it was hard to have discussions on issues of strategic importance to the president. Giuliani went to see Zelensky so they could find Clinton's computer server.

He said that it was difficult for Zelensky to establish a proper relationship with the United States because of Ukraine's position in the "maelstrom of American presidential politics".

Zelensky was forced to launch an investigation into Biden and his son over allegations of corruption after Trump was impeached for the first time over his withholding of $400 million in military aid to Ukraine.

The former Secretary of State and Defense Secretary were concerned about what Trump was doing, and were appalled at what he was doing.

The original article is on Business Insider.

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